{"id":46402,"date":"2012-03-23T20:47:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T18:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=46402"},"modified":"2012-03-26T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T11:45:28","slug":"prototype-blackberry-10-device-planned-for-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/46402-prototype-blackberry-10-device-planned-for-developers.html","title":{"rendered":"Prototype BlackBerry 10 device planned for developers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research In Motion<\/a> plans to give developers a prototype BlackBerry<\/a> 10 device to help them design applications for future smartphones that will run on a modified version of the software running RIM’s poor-selling PlayBook tablet.<\/p>\n

The Canadian company made clear that the device was not a commercial BlackBerry 10 device, the first of which are due to launch later this year, but would help create excitement among developers for its overhauled operating system.<\/p>\n

“It’s not the final hardware or OS – it’s a device to help developers get started with designing for what’s coming,” RIM’s social media manager Alex Kinsella said.<\/p>\n

RIM has struggled to match the massive app libraries available on Apple<\/a> products and Google’s<\/a> Android<\/a> platform, used by a range of handset makers including Samsung.<\/p>\n

It is starting afresh with PlayBook and BlackBerry 10, which use a completely different operating system than RIM’s legacy BlackBerry smartphones.<\/p>\n

The device, called the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha, will be given to developers attending RIM’s annual BlackBerry World conference taking place in Orlando, Florida, in early May.<\/p>\n

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